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The Amazing Spider-Man: The Gauntlet
Series · 4 books · 2010

Books in series

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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Gauntlet, Vol. 1: Electro & Sandman

2010

They're Hunting Spiders...THE GAUNTLET begins here! The event that redefines Spider-Man's classic arch-enemies, one by one, starts with one of his deadliest - Electro! Destitute and desperate, conned out of his life's meaning and worth, Max Dillon becomes the voice of the common man against the brutal injustice of a system overloaded by greed. With Spider-Man already looking over his shoulder, Mark Waid and Paul Azaceta bring you the story of a hero with everything to lose against a man with nothing left to gain. Prepare for death's short, sharp shock. Prepare for Electro! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #612-616, Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man, and Web of Spider-Man 2 (Electro story).
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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Gauntlet, Vol. 2: Rhino & Mysterio

2010

The Gauntlet continues to close around Spider-Man in this heartbreaking story of love, loss, and lust for power as the Rhino charges into Spider-Man's life, out to make a name for himself...by killing the Rhino? And, How long can Mysterio play with Spidey's head before the web-slinger finally snaps?! The mind games keep ratcheting up as the body count goes up, down, and...into the negatives? Some bad guys just won't die and others can't stay dead! So which long-thought deceased Spider-Man character is back now?! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #617-621 and material from Web of Spider-Man #3-4.
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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Gauntlet, Vol. 3: Vulture & Morbius

2010

After facing Rhino and Mysterio, Spider-Man finds himself battling the new Vulture and the living vampire Morbius as Peter Parker watches a friend struggle with his new handicap.
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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Gauntlet, Vol. 5: Lizard

2010

Half-Man, Half-Reptile..."the Lizard will take over all of Earth unless Spider-Man alone can stop him!" With these words, Dr. Curt Connors, the man who would be The Lizard, ushered a new kind of villainy into Spider-Man's life. Now a widower with a son in foster care, and working at the bottom of the pharmaceutical industry, Connors is a broken shell of a man...how long will it be before a Lizard breaks that shell? How will it affect Peter Parker's date with Carlie Cooper?! How is THE BLACK CAT involved? Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo reunite to bring you the next great Spider-Epic as The Lizard returns!

Authors

Marcos Martín
Marcos Martín
Author · 3 books

Marcos Martín is a Catalan comic book artist whose work at Marvel and DC includes such titles as Batgirl: Year One, Breach, Dr.Strange: The Oath, Amazing Spider-man, and Daredevil. In 2013 he founded the online platform Panel Syndicate together with writer Brian K. Vaughan and illustrator/colorist Muntsa Vicente in order to distribute their creator-owned comic, The Private Eye. The series went on to win an Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic and the Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work. The Private Eye and Panel Syndicate have received critical acclaim and media attention for their role as one of the first DRM-free, pay-what-you-want comics and has continued to publish other works by the same team (Barrier, The Walking Dead: The Alien) as well as opening up to other renowned creators like Jay Faerber, Ken Niimura, David López or Albert Monteys. Image Comics has since published both The Private Eye as a deluxe hardcover graphic novel and Barrier as a deluxe five-issue miniseries in their original widescreen format.

Greg Weisman
Greg Weisman
Author · 10 books

Greg Weisman (BA Stanford, MPW U.S.C.) has been a storyteller all his life. His first professional work was as an Editor for DC Comics, where he also wrote Captain Atom. Greg worked at Walt Disney Television Animation from 1989 through 1996. In 1991, Greg created and developed a new series for Disney: GARGOYLES, becoming Supervising Producer and Supervising Story Editor of that series. In 1998, Greg became a full-time Freelancer. He wrote the new Gargoyles and Gargoyles: Bad Guys comic books for SLG Publishing, while producing, writing, story editing and voice acting for Sony’s The Spectacular Spider-Man. He then moved over to Warner Bros., where he produced, story edited, wrote and voice acted on the new series, Young Justice, as well as writing the companion Young Justice monthly comic book for DC. Greg was a writer and Executive Producer on the first season of Star Wars Rebels for Lucasfilm and Disney, and he’s also writing the spin-off comic Star Wars Kanan: The Last Padawan. His first novel, Rain of the Ghosts, was published in 2013; its sequel, Spirits of Ash and Foam, arrived in bookstores in 2014.

Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente
Author · 45 books

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist. Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.

Mark Waid
Mark Waid
Author · 192 books
Mark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.
Zeb Wells
Zeb Wells
Author · 24 books
Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on the animated TV series Robot Chicken.
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